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BELLEFONTAINE 
CEMETERY  ASSOCIATION 

ST.  LOUIS,  MO. 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER,  AMENDMENTS  TO  CHARTER, 
TOGETHER  WITH  THE 
BY-LAWS  AND  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS 

OF  THE 

Bellefontaine  Cemetery 

AND 

SUGGESTIONS  TO  LOT  OWNERS,  ETC.; 

ALSO  AN  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 


St.  Eouis,  Mo.: 

THE  FREEGARD  PRESS, 
1904. 


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■'  ’ . ' 


ts.',.. 


OFFICERS  AND  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 


OF  THE 

Bellefontaine 
Cemetery  Hssociation. 


PRESIDENT, 

GEO.  R.  LOCKWOOD. 

VICE-PRESIDENT, 

HENRY  C.  SCOTT. 

SECRETART  AND  TREASURER, 

J.  B.  Gi^ZAM. 


SUPERINTENDENT, 

FRANK  HOTCHKISS. 


TRUSTEES. 


Samuel  Cupples, 
Daniel  Catlin, 
Edwards  Whitaker, 
John  J.  O’Fallon, 
John  F.  Sheet, ev, 

H.  N.  Davis, 

Wm. 


E.  C.  Eliot, 

H.  E.  Bridge, 

L.  D.  Dozier, 

Geo.  D.  IMarkham, 
John  T.  Davis, 
Thos.  H.  West, 
Duncan. 


OFFICE  HOURS. 

City  Office,  514  Security  Building,  4tli  and  Locust,  9 a.  m. 
until  4 p.  M.  daily,  except  Sunday.  Not  open  on  Sunday. 

At  Cemetery,  8 a.  m.  until  5 p.  m.  daily,  except  Sunday. 
Sunday,  9 a.  m.  until  12  noon  only. 


THE  FIRST 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  AND  OFFICERS  OF 
THE  ASSOCIATION,  1849. 


Wm.  M.  McPherson. 


PRESIDENT, 

JAMES  HARRISON. 

SECRETARY, 

w]\i.  M.  McPherson. 

TREASURER, 

WAYMAN  CROW. 


James  E.  Yeatman, 
James  Harrison, 


John  F.  Darby, 
Henry  Kayser, 
Wayman  Crow, 


Chas.  S.  Rannels, 
Gerard  B.  Allen, 
Philander  Salisbury. 
Wm.  Bennett, 
Augustus  Brewster, 


CIVIL  ENGINEER  AND  SUPERINTENDENT, 

A.  HOTCHKISS. 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH,  ETC. 


The  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  Association  was  incorpo- 
rated under  the  name  of  the  Eural  Cemetery  Association,-  by 
an  Act  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Missouri,  ap- 
proved March  7,  1849.  The  first  meeting  of  the  corporators 
named  in  the  charter  was  held  on  the  21st  day  of  the  same 
month.  The  first  purchase  of  land,  embracing  a tract  of  one 
hundred  and  thirty-eight  and  fourteen  hundredths  acres,  was 
completed  on  the  12th  day  of  July  following.  A Superintend- 
ent was  appointed  on  the  21st  of  August;  and  the  work  of 
clearing  up  and  laying  out  the  grounds  eoromenced  under  his 
direction  on  the  5th  of  October.  On  the  15th  day  of  May, 
1850,  the  grounds  were  dedicated  as  the  “Bellefontaine 
Cemetery,”  and  opened  for  the  selection  of  lots. 

Additions  to  the  grounds  have  been  made  from  time  to 
time,  giving  the  whole  present  area  of  the  Cemetery  three 
hundred  thirty-two  and  one-half  acres. 

The  amendments  to  the  charter,  proposed  by  an  act  of  the 
Legislature,  approved  March  1st,  1851,  were  adopted  by  the 
Association  at  a meeting  of  the  stockholders,  held  on  the  8th 
day  of  November  in  the  same  year.  By  these  amendments  the 
name  of  the  corporation  was  changed  to  the  Bellefontaine 
Cemetery  Association,  and  authority  given  the  Board  of 
Trustees  after  all  debts  should  be  paid,  to  determine  by  by- 
laws (subject  to  the  approval  of  the  stockholders)  to  pay  off 
the  stockholders,  and  make  lot  owners  holding  not  less  than 
eight  hundred  square  feet  the  corporators. 

By  a subsequent  amendment  to  the  charter,  approved 
March  19,  1866,  and  accepted  by  the  stockholders,  the  corpo- 
rate powers  of  the  Association  were  vested  in  a board  of  fif- 


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teen  trustees,  required  to  be  lot  owners,  who  were  to  be  chosen 
jointly  by  the  former  stockholders,  and  by  owners  of  lots 
containing  not  less  than  four  hundred  square  feet,  which 
Board  of  Trustees  was  made  a perpetual  body,  with  authority 
to  fill  all  vacancies  from  among  the  lot  holders,  by  a majority 
vote  of  their  whole  number.  In  this  body  now,  and  for  all 
future  time,  rests  the  title,  control  and  management  of  all  the 
property  and  affairs  of  the  Association,  to  be  administered  by 
them  for  and  in  behalf  of  the  present  and  future  lot  owners 
in  the  Cemetery. 

Lots  in  the  Cemetery  are  only  laid  out  when  selected,  and 
may  be  procured  of  any  desired  shape,  and  of  any  size  not  less 
than  four  hundred  superficial  feet.  Every  lot  will  front 
either  on  a carriage  road,  or  pathway  sufficiently  wide  for  the 
passage  of  persons  on  foot,  and  be  entirely  separated  from 
any  other  lot  either  on  the  sides  or  rear. 

The  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  Association  was  organized 
for  a public  purpose — to  supply  a public  want— and  its 
original  and  publicly  avowed  object  will,  in  all  respects,  be 
faithfully  carried  into  execution.  By  its  charter  the  grounds 
are  secured  for  cemetery  purposes  forever,  and  placed  en- 
tirely beyond  the  power  of  legislative  or  other  control,  save  in 
accordance  with  the  objects  intended  in  their  selection  and 
dedication.  No  lot  is  liable  to  taxation  for  any  purpose,  nor 
can  a lot  be  sold  under  execution,  or  by  order  of  any  court  or 
in  any  way  conveyed,  after  interments  have  been  made  in  it, 
out  of  the  family  of  the  original  proprietor,  except  as  pro- 
vided for  by  section  5 of  amendments  to  the  charter,  ap- 
proved March  19,  1866,  as  found  herein. 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER  AND  AIVIENDMENTS 


OF 

Bellefontaine  Cemetery?  association. 

AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE  THE  RURAL  CEMETERY 
ASSOCIATION  OP  ST.  LOUIS. 

(since  changed  to  bellefontaine  cemetery  association.) 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri, as  follows : 

Section  1.  That  John  F.  Darby,  Henry  Kayser,  Way- 
man  Crow,  James  E.  Yeatman,  James  Harrison,  Chas.  S.  Ran- 
nels,  Gerard  B.  Allen,  Philander  Salisbury,  Wm.  Bennett, 
Augustus  Brewster,  and  Wm.  M.  McPherson,  and  their  as- 
sociates and  successors,  he,  and  they  are  hereby  created,  a 
body  politic  and  corporate,  by  the  name  and  style  of  the 
Rural  Cemetery  Association,  and  by  that  name  shall  have 
perpetual  succession,  and  shall  be  competent,  by  the  name 
and  style  aforesaid,  to  contract  and  be  contracted  with,  to 
sue  and  be  sued,  plead  and  be  impleaded,  defend  and  be  de- 
fended, in  all  courts  and  places,  and  in  all  matters  whatso- 
ever ; and  shall  in  like  manner  have  authority  to  have  and  use^ 
a common  seal,  and  may  alter  or  change  the  same  at  pleasure,. 
and  may  also  make,  ordain,  and  establish  such  by-laws,  rules, 
and  regulations  as  may  be  deemed  necessary  for  the  good 
government  of  said  corporation,  and  the  efficient  manage- 
ment of  its  affairs : Provided,  That  the  same  shall  not  be 
contrary  to  any  provisions  of  this  charter,  nor  to  the  consti- 
tution and  laws  of  this  State,  or  of  the  United  States. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  corporation  shall  have  power  to  pur- 
chase and  hold  a tract  of  land  not  exceeding  two  hundred 
acres,  to  be  located  not  less  than  two  miles  nor  more  than  five 


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miles  distant  from  the  present  corporate  limits  of  the  city  of 
St.  Louis,  to  be  appropriated  and  used  for  a cemetery,  or 
burying  ground,  and  for  that  purpose  may  laj'-  off  the  same 
into  lots  and  subdivisions  suitable  for  graves,  vaults  and  mon- 
uments, and  may  embellish  the  same  with  trees,  shrubbery 
and  flowers,  and  lay  out  roads  and  walks ; and  when  thus  laid 
olf  and  dedicated,  shall  be  forever  held  by  said  corporation  for 
the  purposes  aforesaid,  and  none  other.  Said  corporation  may 
sell  and  convey  any  of  the  lots  or  subdivisions  in  said  Ceme- 
tery for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  subject  to  such  conditions  as 
may  be  prescribed  by  its  by-laws;  and  every  right  sold  and 
conveyed  shall  be  held  and  used  by  the  proprietors  thereof  for 
the  purposes  aforesaid;  shall  be  indivisible,  and  shall  not  be 
subject  to  attachment  or  sale  under  execution,  or  to  be  con- 
veyed by  the  owner  out  of  his  family,  after  any  interments 
have  been  made  in  such  lot,  nor  by  order  of  any  court.* 

[iVot?.— The  foregoing  Section  2 has  been  changed  in  two  important  particulars,  viz.: 
By  the  amendments  approved  March  1st,  1851,  authority  is  given  to  purchase  and  hold 
a tract  of  land  for  cemetery  purposes  not  exceeding  five  hundred  acres.  And  by  the 
amendments  approved  March  19.  1866,  authority  is  given  a lot  owner  to  convey  out 
of  his  family,  under  certain  restrictions,  his  lot,  even  after  Interments  have  been 
made  therein.] 

Sec.  3.  The  officers  of  said  corporation  shall  consist  of 
not  less  than  seven,  nor  more  than  eleven  Trustees  (the  num- 
ber to  be  regulated  by  the  by-laws),,  a Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, and  such  other  officers  and  agents  as  they  may  choose  to 
elect.  The  Trustees  shall  be  elected  annually,  and  shall  hold 
their  offices  for  one  year,  and  until  their  successors  are  duly 
elected.  They  shall  choose  one  of  their  number  as  President, 
who  shall  also  be  President  of  the  corporation ; they  shall  also 
choose  a Secretary  and  Treasurer,  either  from  their  own  body 
or  at  large;  whose  duties  shall  be  defined  by  the  by-laws  of 
the  corporation ; a majority  of  the  Trustees  shall  eon- 

[ Vofe.— The  foregoing  Section  was,  by  the  act  approved  March  19, 1866,  so  amended 
as  to  increase  the  number  of  Trustees  to  fifteen,  by  changing  the  mode  of  their  elec- 
tion, and  by  making  them  a self-perpetuating  body.] 


*An  interlineation  in  the  original  was  transposed  by  the  engrossing  clerk.  It  should 
read:  "And  shall  not  be  subject  to  attachment  or  sale  under  execution,  nor  by  order 
of  any  court,  or  to  be  conveyed  by  the  owner  out  of  his  family  after  any  interments 
have  been  made  in  such  lot.  ” 


ORIGINAL  CHARTER  AND  AMENDMENTS. 


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stitute  a quorum  for  business,  and  they  shall  fill  all  vacancies 
that  may  occur  in  their  body  during  the  time  for  which  they 
are  elected. 

Sec.  4.  The  persons  herein  named  shall  constitute  the 
first  Board  of  Trustees,  and  shall  hold  their  offices  until  an 
election  of  their  successors  takes  place,  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided, and  any  three  of  said  persons  may  call  a meeting  of 
said  Board,  by  giving  at  least  five  days’  notice  in  writing; 
or  through  a daily  paper  published  in  St.  Louis;  and  if  a 
quorum  appear  at  the  time  and  place  appointed  they  shall 
organize  by  the  election  of  officers,  and  proceed  to  business; 
said  Board  shall  determine  upon  the  amount  of  capital  stock 
of  said  corporation  (which  shall  not  exceed  fifty  thousand 
dollars),  the  mode  and  manner  in  which  the  same  shall  be 
subscribed,  paid  in,  transferred  and  held;  and  the  by-laws 
making  these  proffisions  shall  be  forever  binding  on  the  cor- 
poration. The  board  shall  also  fix  upon  the  time  for  the  first 
meeting  of  stockholders  for  the  election  of  officers,  the  man- 
ner of  voting,  and  the  number  of  votes  to  which  each  stock- 
holder shall  be  entitled,  at  which  annual  meetings  the  re- 
ports of  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer  shall  be  presented. 

Sec.  5.  No  sale  of  lots  in  said  Cemetery  shall  be  made 
until  at  least  fifty  acres  shall  be  laid  off  in  suitable  lots,  and 
a plat  of  the  same  filed  in  the  Recorder’s  office  of  St.  Louis 
county,  and  at  least  thirty-three  per  centum  of  the  net  pro- 
ceeds of  all  sales  shall  be  expended  in  improving  and  embel- 
lishing the  grounds,  building  suitable  fences  or  walls  around 
the  same,  and  erecting  necessary  buildings  on  the  premises. 

[Wole.— See  Section  2 of  amendments,  approved  March  1, 1851,  for  modifications  of 
the  foregoing  Section  5.] 

Sec.  6.  All  deeds  for  the  conveyance  of  lots  in  said  Cem- 
etery shall  be  signed  by  the  President  of  said  corporation, 
and  attested  by  the  Secretary,  with  the  seal  of  the  corporation 
attached ; and  the  further  certificate  of  the  Secretary,  that  the 
President  executed  the  same  for  the  purpose  therein  men- 
tioned, with  the  corporate  seal  attached,  shall  be  deemed  suffi- 
cient authentication  of  such  deeds  in  all  courts  and  places 
whatsoever. 


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BELLEFONTAINE  CEMETERY  ASSOCIATION. 


Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  said  corporation  to  take 
and  hold  any  grant  or  bequest  of  money  or  property  in  trust, 
and  to  apply  the  same,  or  the  income  thereof,  under  the  di- 
rection of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  for  the  improvement  of  said 
Cemetery,  or  any  portion  thereof,  or  in  the  erection  or  pres- 
ei’vation  of  any  tomb  or  monument,  according  to  the  terms 
of  any  such  grant  or  bequest;  and  any  court  having  equity 
jurisdiction  for  the  county  of  St.  Louis  shall  have  power  tc 
compel  the  performance  of  any  such  trust,  upon  the  appli- 
cation of  any  lot  owner  in  said  Cemetery. 

Sec.  8.  Any  person  who  shall  wilfully  destroy,  injure  or 
remove  any  tomb  or  monument,  or  any  grave-stone  placed  in 
said  Cemetery,  or  shall  Avilfully  remove,  destroy,  cut,  break 
or  injure  any  fence  around,  or  any  railing,  fence,  tree,  shrub 
or  plant,  within  the  limits  of  said  Cemetery,  or  shall  shoot  off 
or  discharge  any  gun  or  any  other  fire-arms  within  the  said 
limits,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a misdemeanor,  and  shall, 
upon  conviction  thereof  before  any  justice  of  the  peace  or 
court  having  jurisdiction  of  such  cases  within  the  county  of 
St.  Louis,  be  fined  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than 
fifty  dollars,  according  to  the  nature  and  aggravation  of  the 
offense ; and  such  offender  shall  be  liable  to  an  action  of  tres- 
pass, to  be  brought  before  any  justice  or  court  of  competent 
jurisdiction,  in  the  name  of  said  corporation,  to  recover  all 
damages  sustained  by  his  or  her  unlawful  act  or  acts;  and 
such  money,  when  recovered  and  collected,  shall  be  applied  by 
the  Board  of  Directors  to  the  reparation  or  restoration  of  the 
property  destroyed  or  injured;  and  in  such  suits  members  of 
the  corporation  shall  be  competent  witnesses. 

Sec.  9.  Any  person  who  shall  Avilfully  open  any  vault 
or  graAm,  within  the  limits  of  said  Cemetery,  for  the  purpose 
of  robbing  such  grave  or  vault  of  any  of  the  clothes  or  ma- 
terials placed  therein  with  a corpse,  or  who  shall  remoA^e  any 
body  from  said  Cemetery  for  the  purpose  of  dissection,  or 
who  shall  knoAvingly  receive  any  such  body  after  its  removal, 
together  with  all  aiders  and  abetters,  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a felony,  and  upon  conviction  shall  be  punished  by  im-. 
prisonment  in  the  penitentiary  for  the  term  of  two  years. 


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Sec.  10.  Said  Cemetery  is  hereby  declared  exempt  from 
all  taxes  and  assessments,  so  long  as  the  same  shall  remain 
dedicated  to  the  purposes  of  a Cemetery. 

Sec.  11.  In  case  the  land  selected  for  such  Cemetery 
shall  be  on  or  contiguous  to  any  of  the  principal  roads  leading 
out  from  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  and  beyond  the  portion  now 
macadamized,  the  said  corporation  may  tender  to  the  County 
Court  of  St.  Louis  county  any  sum  of  money,  not  less  than 
two  thousand  dollars,  nor  more  than  three  thousand  dollars, 
to  be  appropriated  to  the  extension  of  the  macadamizing  upon 
such  principal  road;  and  upon  such  tender  being  made,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  said  court  to  appropriate  a like  sum ; and 
the  sum  so  tendered  and  appropriated  shall,  without  delay, 
be  expended  by  the  said  court  in  the  grading  and  macad- 
amizing of  such  road,  in  continuation  of  the  work  already 
completed ; and  in  consideration  of  such  sum  being . con- 
tributed towards  such  road  by  said  corporation,  all  carriages 
and  persons  going  to  and  returning  from  burials  in  said 
Cemetery  shall  be  exempt  from  paying  toll  for  travelling 
upon  such  road,  between  said  Cemetery  and  the  city  of  St. 
Louis. 

Sec.  12.  This  act  is  hereby  declared  a public  Act,  and 
shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage; 
and  the  Act  entitled  “An  Act  to  Incorporate  the  Rural  Ceme- 
tery Association,”  approved  twenty-eighth  January,  eighteen 
hundred  and  forty-one,  not  having  been  used,  be  and  the 
same  is  hereby  repealed. 

Approved  March  7th,  1849. 


AMENDMENTS. 


Approved  March  1,  1851. 


AN  ACT  TO  AMEND  AN  ACT  TO  INCORPORATE  TPIE 
RURAL  CEMETERY  ASSOCIATION  OP  ST.  LOUIS, 
APPROVED  MARCH  7th,  1849. 


Be  it  enacted  hy  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri, as  folloivs : 

Section  1.  Said  Rural  Cemetery  Association  is  hereby 
authorized  to  increase  their  Cemetery  grounds,  by  purchase 
or  otherwise,  to  any  quantity  of  land  not  exceeding  five  hun- 
dred acres,  which  additions  shall  be  subject  to  all  the  priv- 
ileges and  restrictions  provided  for  in  the  act  to  which  this  is 
amendatory. 

Sec.  2.  So  much  of  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  to  which 
this  is  amendatory,  as  requires  a plat  of  the  land  laid  off  into 
lots  to  be  filed  in  the  recorder’s  office,  be  and  the  same  is  here- 
by repealed,  and  all  sales  made  of  lots  in  said  Cemetery 
grounds  are  hereby  ratified. 

Sec.  3.  The  Trustees  of  said  Association  are  hereby 
authorized  to  recommend  to  the  County  Court  of  St.  Louis 
county,  a suitable  person,  who  shall  be  appointed  a deputy 
marshal  by  said  court,  ivith  full  power  and  authority,  with 
or  without  process,  to  make  arrest  for  all  offenses  provided 
for  in  the  act  to  ivhieh  this  is  amendatory,  and  may  take  any 
offender  before  any  judge  or  justice  of  the  peace  in  the  coun- 
ty, and  may  serve  all  processes  issued  against  any  trespasser 
or  offender,  at  any  place  within  the  county  of  St.  Louis,  and 
such  deputy  marshal  shall  hold  his  office  until  removal  by  the 


AMENDMENTS. 


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Board  of  Trustees ; and  when  such  removal  is  made,  they  shall 
fuimish  a certified  copy  of  the  removal  to  the  County  Court. 

Sec.  4.  In  case  said  Association  shall  get  permission  to 
open  a road  to  said  Cemetery,  through  the  park  and  grounds 
of  Col.  John  O’Fallon,  then  the  provisions  of  the  act  of  incor- 
poration, as  to  trespassers  and  the  discharge  of  firearms,  shall 
apply  to  and  be  extended  over  said  grounds  to  the  distance  of 
one  hundred  yards  on  each  side  of  such  road,  and  such  deputy 
marshal  shall  have  the  same  power  to  arrest  for  such  offences 
within  said  0 ’Fallon’s  grounds,  to  the  distance  aforesaid,  as 
in  eases  occurring  within  the  Cemetery  grounds. 

Sec.  5.  Whenever  the  debts  that  have  been  incurred  by 
said  Association  shall  all  be  paid,  the  Board  of  Trustees  may 
determine  by.  by-laws  to  pay  off  the  stockholders,  and  provide 
for  sinking  the  stock,  and  making  the  lot-holders  holding  not 
less  than  eight-hundred  square  feet  the  corporators,  and  vest- 
ing such  lot-holders  with  all  the  powers  now  vested  in  the 
stockholders,  which  by-laws  shall  be  submitted  to  the  stock- 
holders, and  if  agreed  to  by  them  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall 
proceed  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  said  by-laws. 

Sec.  6.  Hereafter  the  Rural  Cemetery  Association  shall 
be  known  and  called  the  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  Association, 
and  by  that  name  shall  be  vested  with  all  the  rights  and  priv- 
ileges vested  in  them  by  the  name  and  style  of  the  Rural 
Cemetery  Association,  and  by  the  name  and  style  of  the  Belle- 
fontaine Cemetery  Association  may  sue  and  be  sued  on  any 
contract  or  agreement  entered  into  under  their  former  name. 

Sec.  7.  This  Act  shall  be  submitted  to  the  stockholders 
at  a meeting  to  be  called  for  that  purpose,  when  these  amend- 
ments shall  be  submitted  by  sections ; and,  if  approved  by  a 
majority  of  the  stockholders,  shall  be  adopted  and  become  a 
part  of  the  charter  of  said  Association,  from  the  time  of  adop- 
tion, but  if  rejected  shall  become  null  and  void. 

Approved  March  1,  1851. 

[Voie.— The  foregoing-  amendments,  enacted  by  act  of  the  State  Legislature,  -were 
adopted  by  the  stockholders,  and  became  a part  of  the  Charter  of  the  Association  on 
November  8, 1851.] 


AMENDMENTS. 

Approved  March  19,  1866. 


AN  ACT  IN  EELATION  TO  BELLEFONTAINE 
CEMETERY  ASSOCIATION. 


Be  it  enacted  hy  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Mis- 
souri, as  follows : 

Section  1.  The  corporate  powers  of  the  Bellefontaine 
Cemetery  Association  shall  hereafter  be  vested  in  a Board  of 
fifteen  Trustees,  to  be  elected  as  follows : The  present  Board 

of  Trustees  shall,  within  sixty  days  after  the  first  day  of 
October,  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-six,  call  a meeting  of  the 
lot  owners  in  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing eight  Trustees,  at  which  election  every  lot  owner  shall  be 
entitled  to  one  vote  for  every  four  hundred  square  feet  of 
land  he  may  own  in  said  Cemetery;  and  at  the  next  annual 
election  to  be  held  by  the  stockholders  of  said  Association  they 
shall  elect  seven  Trustees,  and  the  Trustees  so  elected  by  the 
lot  owners  and  stockholders  shall  meet  and  organize  by  the 
election  of  a President  and  other  officers,  as  now  provided  by 
the  by-laws,  and  shall  have  and  exercise  all  the  powers  now 
vested  in  the  Trustees  of  said  Association. 

Sec.  2.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  as  a Trustee  who  is 
not  a lot  owner  in  said  Cemetery  and  a resident  in  Saint 
Louis  County,  and  a removal  from  the  county  or  the  disposal 
of  his  lot  shall  vacate  his  office  as  such  Trustee. 

Sec.  3.  The  Trustees  so  elected  shall  be  a perpetual 
body,  and  shall  fill  all  the  vacancies  created  in  their  Board 
by  a vote  of  a majority  of  their  whole  number,  and  may  expel 


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a member  at  any  regular  meeting  for  cause,  to  be  stated  on 
tbeir  records,  by  the  vote  of  ten  members  in  favor  of  such 
expulsion. 

Sec.  4.  As  soon  as  said  Board  of  Trustees  are  elected 
and  organized  as  above  provided,  the  stockholders  in  said 
Association,  as  now  existing,  shall  have  the  balance  due  on 
their  stock  returned  to  them,  and  from  that  date  their  stock 
shall  be  deemed  cancelled  and  their  rights  as  stockholders 
shall  cease,  and  the  corporate  rights  shall  by  that  act  be  vest- 
ed in  the  lot  owners  in  said  Cemetery,  and  thereafter  repre- 
sented by  the  Board  of  Trustees  above  provided  for. 

Sec.  5.  The  owner  of  any  lot  in  said  Cemetery  which 
has  been  used  for  interment,  and  the  bodies  afterward  re 
moved  by  consent  of  the  corporation,  may,  after  two  years 
from  the  date  of  such  removal,  sell  and  convey  said  lot  as 
though  the  same  had  not  been  used. 

This  act  shall  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage. 

Approved  March  19,  A.  D.,  1866. 

[Note. — The  foregoing  amendments  to  the  Charter  were  accepted  by  the  stockhold- 
ers, as  per  certificate  on  file  under  date  of  22d  November,  1866  ; the  elections  called  for 
in  said  amendments  were  duly  held  on  the  28th  November,  1866;  and  the  new  organi- 
zation perfected  by  the  election  of  officers  on  the  third  day  of  December,  1866,  as  per 
records  of  the  Association.] 


By-Laws 


OF  THE 

BeUcfontaine  Cemetery  association. 

Adopted  1st  May,  1878. 


ARTICLE  I. 

OP  THE  POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OP  CORPORATORS  AND  TRUSTEES. 

Section  1.  All  proprietors  of  lots  containing  not  less 
than  four  hundred  square  feet  are  members  of  the  corporation ; 
and  no  one  not  an  owner  of  a lot  shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of 
Trustee.  (See.  1,  Amended  Charter,  approved  19th  March, 
1866.) 

Sec.  2.  The  Board  of  Trustees  consists  of  fifteen  mem- 
bers, who  must  be  lot  owners  at  the  time  of  their  election,  and 
shall  reside  in  the  city  of  St.  Louis ; and  any  Trustee  ceasing 
to  be  a lot  owner,  or  removing  from  the  city  of  St.  Louis, 
shall  thereby  vacate  his  office.  (Sec.  1 and  2,  Amended  Char- 
ter, approved  19th  March,  1866.)  A majority  of  the  Board 
are  requisite  at  any  meeting  for  the  transaction  of  business. 
'(Sec.  3,  Original  Charter,  approved  7th  March,  1849.) 

Sec.  3.  Any  Trustee  absenting  himself  from  four  con- 
secutive regular  meetings  of  the  Board,  of  wliich  he  has  been 
duly  notified  by  the  Secretary,  shall  be  considered  to  have 
given  cause  for  vacating  his  office,  as  provided  for  in  Section 
3,  Amended  Charter,  approved  March  19,  1866. 

In  case  of  any  vacancy  occurring  in  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees, the  Board  shall  proceed  without  any  unneeessaiy  delay  to 
fill  the  same  by  ballot,  a majority  of  their  whole  number  being 
necessary  to  elect  in  such  case.  (Sec.  3,  Amended  Charter, 
approved  19th  March,  1866.) 


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ARTICLE  II. 

OF  MEETINGS  OP  THE  BOARD. 

Section  4.  There  shall  he  four  regular  meetings  of  the 
Board  in  each  year,  viz. ; on  the  fourth  Mondays  of  January, 
April,  July  and  October.  Special  meetings,  when  deemed 
necessary,  may  be  called  by  the  President  or  by  the  Secretary, 
upon  request  of  any  two  members  of  the  Board. 

ARTICLE  III. 

OP  THE  OPPICERS  OP  THE  ASSOCIATION  AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 

Section  5.  The  officers  of  the  corporation  shall  consist 
of  a President,  Vice-President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
(which  may  be  held  by  the  same  person),  and  Superinten- 
dent ; all  of  whom  shall  be  elected  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  held  on  the  fourth  Monday  in  April  of  each  year, 
and  shall  hold  their  offices  for  one  year,  or  until  their  succes- 
sors are  duly  chosen.  In  case  of  a failure  to  elect  at  the  time 
specified  herein,  the  election  shall  take  place  at  the  next  meet- 
ing of  the  Board. 

Sec.  6.  The  President  shall  preside  at  the  meetings  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  shall  sign  all  deeds  for  the  con- 
veyance of  lots  in  the  Cemetery,  and  have  a general  super- 
vision over  the  interests  and  affairs  of  the  Association.  In 
his  absence,  from  any  cause,  the  Vice-President  shall  preside 
at  the  meetings  of  the  Board  and  discharge  the  duties  of 
President. 

Sec.  7.  The  Secretary  shall  notify  Trustees  of  all  meet- 
ings, attend  same,  and  keep  a faithful  record  of  their  doings. 
He  shall  have  the  custody  of  all  the  books,  papers,  title-deeds 
and  documents  of  every  kind  belonging  to  the  Association. 
He  shall,  jointly  Avith  the  President,  sign  all  deeds  for  the 
conveyance  of  lots  in  the  Cemetery,  and  keep  a true  record  of 
such  sales  in  a book  for  that  purpose,  and  enter  therein  such 
changes  as  may  occur  from  time  to  time  in  the  oAvnership  of 
any  lots  sold.  He  shall  also  keep  a true  record  of  all  inter- 


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merits  in  the  Cemetery,  and  issue  tickets  of  admission  to  same 
under  the  rules  for  that  purpose,  and. shall  perform  any  other 
duties  required  of  him  appropriate  to  his  office. 

Sec.  8.  Tlie  Treasurer  shall  have  the  custody  of  all 
funds  belonging  to  the  Association,  depositing  them  as  re- 
ceived from  time  to  time  in  such  bank  as  may  be  designated 
by  the  Board.  He  shall  collect  all  moneys  due  the  corpora- 
tion, and  hold,  invest,  or  pay  them  out,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  or  President.  He  shall  be  empowered 
to  pay  all  claims  for  work  and  materials  authorized  and  cer- 
tified by  the  Executive  Committee;  and  also  the  orders  and 
certificates  of  the  Superintendent  for  expenditures  made  by 
him,  together  with  the  monthly  payrolls  of  all  employees  at 
the  Cemetery,  when  same  are  duly  certified  by  him.  He  shall 
keep  the  necessary  books,  showing  the  receipt  and  disburse- 
ment of  all  funds  passing  through  his  hands,  and  render  at 
every  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  a statement  showing  bal- 
ance of  funds  on  hand,  and  at  the  meeting  in  January  a full 
statement  for  the  previous  year  of  receipts  and  disbursements, 
and  showing  the  condition  of  the  Association  up  to  that  time. 
He  shall  also  perform  any  other  duties  required  of  him  ap- 
propriate to  his  office.  He  shall  give  bond,  with  security  to  be 
approved  by  the  Board  or  Executive  Committee,  in  the  sum  of 
ten  thousand  dollars,  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his 
duties  as  Treasurer.  His  salary  shall  be  fixed  by  resolution 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

Sec.  9.  The  Superintendent  shall  reside  on  or  near  the 
Cemetery  grounds,  and  shall  at  all  times  be  subject  to  the 
direction  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  either  directly  or  by  its 
Executive  Committee.  He  shall  have  the  general  care  and 
custody  of  the  Cemetery,  and  direction  and  control  of  all  im- 
provements on  the  premises.  He  shall  lay  out  all  lots,  and 
all  walks,  roadways  and  avenues  in  the  Cemetery,  and  pre- 
serve a record  thereof,  so  that  the  same  may  be  known  and 
easily  found  should  the  boundaries  become  changed  or  obliter- 
ated. He  shall  also  keep  a map  of  the  grounds,  showing  all 
improvements.  He  shall  have  the  control  and  direction  of 


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all  subordinate  officers  and  workmen  employed  in  the  Ceme- 
tery, directing  their  duties  and  fixing  their  compensation,  and 
shall  have  the  enforcement  of  all  laws,  rules  and  regulations 
affecting  the  rights  of  proprietors  or  the  conduct  of  visitors. 
He  shall  have  charge  of  and  keep  an  account  of  all  property, 
tools  and  implements  belonging  to  the  Association,  and  shall 
cause  a record  to  be  kept  of  all  interments  made  in  the  Ceme- 
tery. He  shall  keep  such  books  of  record,  make  such  reports, 
and  perform  such  other  duties  appropriate  to  his  office  as  the 
Trustees  may  from  time  to  time  require.  He  shall  with  his 
subordinates  give  especial  attention  to  negotiating  the  sale  of 
lots,  affording  to  parties  desirous  to  purchase  all  the  facilities 
in  their  power  for  the  inspection  of  the  grounds,  and  all  un- 
sold lots  of  the  Association.  He  shall  pay  over,  or  cause  to  be 
paid  to  the  Treasurer,  monthly  or  oftener,  all  moneys  that 
may  be  received  as  proceeds  of  any  property  sold  by  him  or 
his  subordinates  at  the  Cemetery,  or  that  may  be  received 
from  any  other  source,  belonging  to  the  Association. 

Sec.  10.  No  person  in  the  employ  of  the  corporation 
shall  be  permitted  to  receive  any  perquisite  for  any  matter  of 
service  connected  with  the  Cemetery  or  his  duties  therein — 
the  salary  or  wages  of  such  person  being  considered  as  full 
compensation  therefor. 

Sec.  11.  Any  officer  of  the  corporation  may,  for  good 
cause  shown,  be  removed  by  the  board  of  Trustees  at  any 
meeting  thereof,  by  a vote  of  not  less  than  a majority  of  the 
whole  Board. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

OF  THE  APPOINTMENT  OP  pOMMITTEES  AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 

Sec.  12,  There  shall  be  a standing  committee  of  three, 
to  be  called  the  “Executive  Committee,”  who  shall  be  elected 
at  the  same  time  with  the  officers  of  the  Board,  who  shall  be 
charged  with  the  general  care  and  management  of  the 
grounds  and  property  of  the  Association;  and  shall  have 
power  to  make  contracts  for  the  improvement  and  embellish- 


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meut  of  the  grounds,  and  arrangements  for  the  proper  regula- 
tion thereof;  and  may  employ  all  necessary  superintendents, 
agents  and  laborers  for  that  purpose,  subject,  however,  to 
such  general  or  special  instructions,  if  any,  which  the  Board 
of  Trustees  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe.  The  President 
and  Vice-President  for  the  time  being  shall  be  e,x  ofEcio  mem- 
bers, in  addition  thereto,  of  said  committee. 

Sec.  13.  There  shall  also  be  elected  at  the  regular  meet- 
ing in  April  of  each  year  a committee,  to  be  called  the  “Com- 
mittee on  Accounts,”  consisting  of  three  Trustees,  of  which 
either  the  President  or  Vice-President  shall  be  one — whose 
duties  shall  be  to  examine  yearly  or  oftener,  if  so  directed, 
the  books,  accounts  and  vouchers  of  the  Treasurer,  with  a 
view  to  their  correctness,  and  report  their  findings  to  the 
Board.  They  shall  also  act  as  auditors  in  the  verification  of 
any  claim  against  the  Association,  not  otherwise  properly 
vouched  for,  and  in  regard  to  the  correctness  or  justness  of 
which  the  Treasurer  may  not  be  able  to  determine ; and  their 
approval  shall  be  authority  for  payment  by  him. 

ARTICLE  V. 

IN  REFERENCE  TO  ANT  CHANGE  IN  THE  BY-LAWS. 

Sec.  14.  These  By-Laws  may  be  enlarged,  altered, 
amended  or  repealed  at  any  meeting  of  the  Board;  provided^ 
that  a majority  of  the  whole  Board  shall  concur  in  the  pro- 
posed proceeding. 


RULES  AND  REGULATIONS 


OF  THE 

Bellefontatne  Cemeter^^  Heaociation, 


RULES  GOVERNING  LOTS  AND  LOT  OAYNERS. 

1.  All  lots  are  and  shall  be  held  in  pursuance  of  “An 
Act  to  Incorporate  the  Rural  Cemetery  Association  of  St. 
Louis”  (since  changed  to  Belief ontaine  Cemetery  Associa- 
tion), approved  March  7,  1849 — and  amendments  thereto,  ap- 
proved March  1,  1851,  and  March  19,  1866 — and  such  By- 
Laws  and  rules  as  are  made  hi/  the  Board  of  Trustees  from 
time  to  time. 

2.  The  minimum  size  of  lots  shall  he  four  hundred 
square  feet,  and  the  boundaries  of  each  lot  must  be  designated 
by  at  least  four  boundary  stones  set  flush  with  the  surface  of 
the  lot,  on  one  of  which  the  number  of  the  lot  will  be  placed, 
and  which  will  be  erected  by  the  Association  and  must  be  paid 
for  at  the  time  of  purchase  of  lot. 

3.  The  price  of  lots  (until  otherwise  ordered)  ranges 
from  seventy-five  cents  to  two  dollars  per  square  foot. 

4.  Inclosures,  of  all  kinds,  around  lots  are  prohib- 
ited, whether  of  fences,  coping,  hedges  or  anything  else,  as 
are  also  wooden  head-boards. 

5.  No  paths  will  be  permitted  on  lots,  nor  may  any 
structure  be  erected  thereon  other  than  a vault,  monument,  or 
head-stone. 

No  entrance  or  entrance  post  may  be  placed  upon  any 
lot;  and  no  steps,  except  where  steps  are  required  by  the 
grade  of  the  lot,  and  upon  application  to  the  Association. 

No  more  than  one  monument  or  mausoleum  may  be 
placed  upon  any  one  lot,  and  no  head-stone  upon  any  lot  shall 


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be  liigliei'  than  ten.  inches  above  the  ground  except  hy  special 
permission  of  the  Association,  which  will  *be  granted  upon 
application  to  such  owners  of  old  lots  as  have  already  com- 
menced to  set  head-stones  of  uniform  height  where,  for  the 
sake  of  uniformity,  additional  ones  may  be  set  of  the  same 
size  and  shape  as  those  already  set  up. 

6.  Proprietors  are  prohibited  from  allowing  interments 
to  be  made  in  their  lots  for  a remuneration;  neither  can  they 
legally  transfer  or  assign,  in  whole  or  in  part,  any  lot  which 
has  once  been  used  for  interment  purposes,  except  as  pro- 
vided for  in  Section  5 of  Amendments  to  the  Charter,  ap- 
proved March  19,  1866  (as  found  herein),  nor  will  the  Asso- 
ciation recognize  the  rights  of  any  party  claiming  burial  in 
any  lot  transferred  or  assigned,  unless  the  permission  of  the 
original  owners,  or  their  legal  representatives,  is  entered  of 
record  on  the  books  of  the  Association. 

The  Board  will  consider  any  such  division,  transfer,  sale, 
or  permit  made  or  given  for  a remuneration  a breach  of  con- 
tract on  the  part  of  the  lot  owner,  and  will  prohibit  any  fur- 
ther use  of  the  lot  for  any  purpose  whatever,  and  will  return 
the  purchase  money  upon  the  vacation  of  the  lot  and  surren- 
der of  the  deed. 

A lot  is  intended  as  the  family  burying  ground  of  the 
purchaser,  and  therefore  while  he  may  permit  the  interment 
in  his  lot  of  one  not  of  his  family,  an  heir  cannot,  except  by 
the  unanimous  consent  of  all  the  owners. 

7.  To  insure  the  proper  regulations  of  the  grounds,  the 
grade  of  all  lots  will  be  determined  by  the  Superintendent, 
as  the  authorized  agent  of  the  Association. 

8.  The  owner  of  each  lot  shall  have  the  right  to  erect 
thereon  any  proper  stones  or  monuments,  under  the  general 
supervision  of  the  Superintendent  (but  the  Association  re- 
serves the  right  to  construct  all  necessary  foundations  for  the 
same  at  the  owner’s  cost) ; and  to  cultivate  trees,  shrubs  and 
plants  on  the  same;  but  no  trees,  shrubs,  plants  or  flowers 
growing  within  the  lot  or  border  shall  be  cut  down,  trimmed, 
destroyed,  or  taken  away  without  consent  having  first  been 

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obtained  from  the  Superintendent’s  office  on  the  Cemetery 
grounds. 

9.  If  any  trees  or  shruhs,  situate  in  any  lot,  shall,  by 
means  of  their  roots,  branches,  or  otherwise,  become  detri- 
mental to  the  adjacent  lots  or  avenues,  or  dangerous  or  incon- 
venient to  passengers,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Trustees, 
and  they  shall  have  the  right,  to  enter  the  said  lot,  and  remove 
the  said  trees  and  shrubs,  or  such  parts  thereof  as  are  detri- 
mental, dangerous  or  inconvenient. 

10.  If  any  monument,  effigy  or  inclosure,  or  any  struc- 
ture whatever,  or  any  inscription,  be  placed  in  or  upon  any 
lot,  which  shall  be  determined  by  the  major  part  of  the  Trus- 
tees, for  the  time  being,  to  be  offensive  or  improper,  or  injur- 
ious to  the  appearance  of  the  surrounding  lots  or  grounds, 
the  said  Trustees  shall  have  the  right,  and  it  shall  he  their 
duty,  to  enter  upon  such  lot  and  remove  the  said  offensive  or 
improper  object  or  objects. 

11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  from 
time  to  time,  to  lay  out  or  alter  such  avenues  or  walks,  and 
to  make  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the 
grounds  as  they  may  deem  requisite  and  proper  to  secure  and 
promote  the  general  objects  of  the  Association. 

12.  The  proprietors  of  lots,  and  their  families,  when 
presenting  their  cards  of  admission,  shall  be  allowed  access  to 
the  grounds  at  all  times,  obser\ung  the  rules  which  may  be 
adopted  for  the  regulation  of  visitors. 

13.  No  lot  shall  be  used  for  any  other  purpose  than  as  a 
place  of  burial  for  the  dead. 

14.  Legacies  and  deposits  for  the  care  of  lots  wiU  be  re- 
ceived and  the  amount  necessary  for  the  care  of  the  shrubbery 
and  turf,  not  exceeding  the  sum  of  4 per  cent,  per  annum 
of  the  deposit,  will  be  expended  on  the  lots  so  endowed. 
Legacies  and  deposits  for  the  care  of  monuments  will  be  re- 
ceived and  interest  at  the  rate  of  2 per  cent,  per  annum  al- 
lowed to  he  applied  to  the  care  and  preservation,  and,  when 
necessary,  the  principal  will  be  expended  in  the  care  of  monu- 
ments so  provided  for,  until  the  fund  is  exhausted. 


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15.  No  transfer  of  title  to  any  lot  once  used  for  burial, 
shall  hereafter  be  permitted  on  the  records,  without  first  hav- 
ing the  sanction  of  the  Executive  Committee,  to  whotn  all  ap- 
plications of  the  kind  (which  must  be  in  writing)  shall  be  re- 
ferred by  the  Secretary;  and  no  recognition  of  transfer  of 
title  in  cases  sanctioned  by  said  Committee  shall  be  allowed 
by  the  Secretary  on  the  books  of  the  Association,  until  the 
full  two  years  have  elapsed  from  date  of  the  removal  of  the 
dead  in  such  lot,  of  which  removal  proper  notice  shall  be  filed 
with  the  Secretary. 

16.  On  the  decease  of  any  owner  or  part  owner  of  a lot 
in  the  Cemetery,  the  heirs  or  devisees  of  such  decedent  must 
file  in  the  office  of  the  Association  full  proof  of  their  heirship 
or  proprietorship,  for  the  purpose  of  being  duly  recorded  in 
the  books  of  the  Association.  Without  such  proof  and  record, 
the  right  to  the  lot  cannot  be  recognized  by  the  Association  or 
its  Officers. 

17.  Lot  owners  should  keep  diagrams  of  their  lots  show- 
ing interments,  that  they  may  be  able  to  give  explicit  instruc- 
tions as  to  where  to  open  graves  when  it  is  necessary  to  use 
their  lots. 

Blank  diagrams  will  be  furnished  on  application  to  the 
City  office. 

18.  Persons  owning  old  lots  in  partnership  should  file  a 
written  agreement  at  the  City  office  as  to  which  part  of  the  lot 
each  shall  use,  unless  they  wish  to  use  it  indiscriminately. 
Each  of  two  or  ndore  ibint  owners  will  be  entitled  to  his  undi- 
vided interest  only  afid  will  not  be  allowed  to  use  more  space 
than  his  proportionate  part  of  the  lot. 

19.  The  Trustees  reserve  the  right  to  do  all  gardening 
on,  and  to  give  care  to,  all  lots,  to  the  exclusion  of  all  persons 
not  in  the  employ  of  the  Association. 

20.  Lot  owners  wishing  their  lots  graded  and  sodded, 
and  placed  under  special  annual  care,  should  leave  their  or- 
ders at  the  City  Office,  No.  514  Security  Building.  A deposit 
of  money  for  perpetual  care  may  be  made  with  the  Associa- 
tion at  the  same  place. 


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21.  A fee  of  five  dollars  shall  he  required  by  the  Secre- 
tary, to  be  paid  at  the  time  of  any  recognition  of  transfer  of 
ownership. 

HEIRSHIP. 

First : To  children  and  their  descendants. 

If  no  children, 

Second:  To  father,  mother,  brothers  and  sisters  and 

their  descendants,  in  equal  interest. 

If  none,  then. 

Third : To  wife  or  husband. 

Fourth:  To  grandfather  and  grandmother,  uncles  and 

aunts  and  their  descendants,  in  equal  interest. 

A husband  or  wife  may  be  buried  in  the  lot  of  the  other 
although  he  or  she  does  not  inherit  it ; but  the  survivor  cannot 
order  interments  in  it,  unless  it  comes  to  him  or  her  by  will 
or  inheritance.  (See  Third  above.) 

Lots  will  not  be  sold  in  joint  o^vnership.  The  experi- 
ence of  all  cemetery  associations  shows  that  in  the  lapse  of 
time  complications  arise  beLveen  the  descendants  of  joint 
owners,  although  they  may  be  of  the  same  blood. 

In  ease  of  the  death  of  an  OAvner,  immediate  notice  should 
be  sent,  giving  the  name  of  heirs ; and  in  case  the  lot  has  been 
disposed  of  by  will,  a transcript  of  the  clause,  properly  at- 
tested, should  be  filed  at  the  office  of  the  Association. 

RULES  CONCERNING  EMPROYEMENTS,  Etc. 

1.  The  proper  care  and  regulation  of  the  grounds  of 
the  Cemetery,  the  location  and  grade  of  lots,  walks,  avenues 
and  drives,  and  the  general  control  of  all  improvements  made 
therein,  are  in  the  hands  of  the  Trustees,  as  directed  by  their 
agents,  the  Superintendent  and  his  subox’dinates. 

2.  All  workmen  employed  in  the  construction  of  vaults, 
erection  of  monuments,  etc.,  must  be  subject  to  the  control 
and  direction  of  the  agents  of  the  Association ; and  any  work- 
man failing  to  comply  to  this  regulation  will  not  be  permitted 
afterwards  to  work  on  the  grounds. 


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3.  The  Trustees  have  no  wish  to  interfere  with  the  taste 
of  individuals  in  regard  to  the  style  of  their  improvements; 
but  yet,  in  justice  to  the  interests  of  the  whole,  they  reserve 
to  themselves  the  right  of  preventing  or  removing  any  erec- 
tion or  inclosure  which  they  shall  consider  injurious  to  the 
immediate  locality,  or  prejudicial  to  the  general  good  appear- 
ance of  tlie  grounds;  and,  also,  of  removing  or  pruning  any 
trees  or  shrubbery  which  may  obstruct  or  mar  the  effect  and 
beauty  of  the  scenery,  or  may  otherwise  prove  injurious,  un- 
sightly or  detrimental. 

4.  No  vault  shall  be  erected,  wholly  or  in  part,  above 
ground  without  permission  of  the  Association,  and  all  such 
must  be  furnished  with  shelves,  having  divisions,  allowing 
interments  to  be  separately  made,  and  perpetually  sealed; 
such  portions  as  are  above  ground  must  be  of  stone,  granite 
or  marble. 

5.  Foundations  of  hollow  construction,  such  as  are 
made  by  two  or  more  piers  with  earth  space  between  them, 
cannot  be  allowed. 

6.  Gardeners,  masons,  stone-cutters,  marble-workers, 
and  all  others  having  work  to  do  for  the  proprietors,  will,  on 
application  to  the  Superintendent,  be  furnished  with  cards 
of  admission,  permitting  them  to  follow  their  calling  in  the 
grounds,  on  such  conditions  as  he  may  consider  necessary, 
and  as  will  insure  the  strict  observance  of  the  Rules,  Regula- 
tions and  proprieties  of  the  place,  any  violation  of  which  will, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  Superintendent,  forfeit  the  privilege 
and  compel  the  positive  exclusion  of  the  offender. 

7.  All  workmen  will  be  required  to  conduct  their  opera- 
tions with  compactness  and  neatness,  confining  themselves  to 
the  lot  for  which  they  are  engaged,  and  such  additional  limits 
as  may  be  assigned  them,  carefully  avoiding  any  encroach- 
ment upon  adjoining  lots. 

8.  Masons  and  stone-cutters  will  not  be  permitted  to 
bring  into  the  grounds  material  in  large  quantities  in  advance 
of  its  immediate  use,  nor  in  an  unprepared  condition.  Blocks 


St.  Louis,  April  24,  1905. 


TOMBS,  MAUSOLEUMS  AND  MARKERS. 

No  tomb  or  mausoleum  shall  be  erected  on  a lot  in  an  old 
established  neighborhood.  Persons  contemplating  erecting 
such  structures  must  make  their  intention  known  when  select- 
ing a lot,  and  a clause  permitting  this  will  be  put  in  their  deed. 

No  structure  in  the  nature  of  a tomb  or  mausoleum  shall 
be  erected  of  any  material  but  granite,  and  no  part  of  such 
structure  shall  come  within  ten  feet  of  the  boundaries  of  any 
lot. 


No  shafts  or  other  monuments  of  any  material  but  gran- 
ite shall  be  erected  upon  the  grounds,  except  upon  permis- 
sion of  the  Executive  Committee. 

Concrete  foundations  will  be  allowed  for  markers  having 
a rough  butt  of  six  inches. 

Bellefontaine  Cemetery  Association, 

514  Security  Building. 


Insert  page  36. 


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of  stone  and  marble  must  be  dressed  to  the  design  and  dimen- 
sions ready  for  setting ; lime  must  be  slacked,  and  mortar  pre- 
pared and  brought  to  the  grounds  in  moderate  supply ; and  all 
chips,  prunings  and  rubbish  must  be  gathered  up  and  carried 
to  places  of  deposit,  as  required  by  officers  of  the  Association. 
No  stone  or  other  building  material  shall  be  brought  into  the 
Cemetery  on  Saturday  after  12  o’clock  noon,  nor  shall  any 
work  be  begun  on  that  day  which  cannot  be  finished  by  4 
o’clock  p.  M.,  nor  shall  any  hauling  of  any  kind  of  material 
from  the  outside  into  the  Cemetery  be  allowed  after  that  hour, 
except  in  case  of  imperative  necessity  and  by  special  permis- 
sion. 

9.  Headstones  and  monuments  not  over  two  feet  high 
are  required  to  have  foundations  not  less  than  four  feet  deep  ; 
all  over  that  height,  six  feet  deep.  The  example  of  head- 
stones settling  and  leaning  towards  the  graves  at  which  they 
stand  justifies  and  exacts  the  strict  enforcement  of  this  rule. 

10.  Prepayment  for  all  work  will  be  required  in  accord- 
ance with  estimates,  which  will  be  furnished  on  application  to 
the  Superintendent  ; and  notice  of  fault  or  neglect  must  be 
given  within  ten  days  after  the  work  has  been  done. 

11.  All  parties  are  notified  that,  in  eonseauence  of  the 
admission  of  workmen  not  in  the  employ  of  the  Association, 
a rigid  enforcement  of  the  Rules  and  Regulations  is  impera- 
tively necessary. 

12.  No  monument,  vault,  mausoleum,  or  other  similar 
structure  may  be  built  upon  any  lot,  except  upon  the  submis- 
sion to  the  Association  of  complete  plans  and  specifications 
therefor,  and  the  approval  of  such  plans  and  specifications  by 
the  Association. 

13.  Boxes  containing  dried  birds,  dried  flowers,  or  any- 
thing else,  metal  flowers  or  wreaths,  toys,  shells,  or  similar  ar- 
ticles are  inconsistent  with  the  proper  keeping  of  the  grounds 
and  will  not  in  future  be  permitted;  nor  will  foot-stones  at 
graves  be  allowed,  nor  wooden  or  iron  trellises  for  vines. 
Such  articles  as  are  now  on  the  grounds  will  be  removed 


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wlieuever  tliey  fall  into  bad  order,  and  it  will  not  be  permitted 
to  renew  them. 

14.  Any  fence,  enclosure,  entrance,  entrance  post,  cop- 
ing, or  curb  which  may  be,  or  hereafter  become,  dilapidated 
and  unsightly  may  be  caused  to  be  removed  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  at  the  expense  of  the  Association. 

RULES  CONCERNING  INTERMENTS  AND 
RECEIVING  TOMB. 

1.  A receiving  tomb  is  provided  at  the  Cemetery  for  the 
temporary  accommodation  of  those  who  intend  to  purchase 
lots.  No  ease  of  cholera,  small-pox,  diphtheria,  scarlet  fever, 
yellow  fever,  or  any  case  of  contagious  disease,  can  be  admit- 
ted to  the  tomb.  Twenty  days  are  allowed  for  the  removal  of 
remains.  Terms  for  the  use  of  tomb  Avill  be  found  under  the 
head  of  ‘ ‘ Table  of  Charges.  ’ ’ 

No  remains  of  any  one  dying  of  any  of  the  above  named, 
or  other  contagious,  disease  shall  be  placed  in  any  private 
tomb  or  vault,  unless  in  a hermetically  sealed  box. 

2.  The  duties  of  Superintendent  of  Interments,  who  is 
also  keeper  of  the  grounds,  and  with  his  family  resides  at  the 
Cemetery,  require  his  attendance,  either  in  person  or  by  as- 
sistant, at  every  interment. 

3.  In  each  application  for  burial,  a statement  must  be 
furnished,  giving  the  name,  age,  sex,  color,  residence  and 
disease  of  the  person  to  be  interred,  which  on  being  signed  by 
the  applicant,  the  Secretary  will  then  issue  an  order  for  inter- 
ment. 

The  exhibition  of  the  certificate  of  the  Board  of  Health 
will  be  considered  as  complying  with  this  rule. 

4.  No  interment  will  be  permitted  in  the  Cemetery,  or 
body  deposited  in  receiving  tomb,  without  the  order  of  the 
Secretary  above  referred  to,  which  must  in  all  cases  be  ac- 
companied by  the  proper  burial  certificate,  issued  by  the 
Board  of  Health,  as  required  by  the  municipal  regulations  of 
the  city.  This  rule  is  imperative. 


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5.  In  making  applications  for  interment,  the  coffin  or 
case,  if  of  extra  or  unusual  size,  should  be  particularly  men- 
tioned ; and  when  interment  is  to  be  made  in  a private  lot,  the 
exact  location  of  the  grave  in  the  lot  must  be  stated.  Boxes 
to  be  used  at  Monday  afternoon  funerals  may  be  sent  to  the 
Cemetery  IMonday  morning.  No  boxes  received  at  the  Ceme- 
tery on  Sunday. 

6.  In  the  matter  of  permits  for  interments  in  private 
lots,  the  rule  requiring  owners  to  sign  such  permits,  will  be 
enforced  in  all  cases. 

Producing  a deed  will  not  be  considered  any  authority  for 
opening  a grave  in  a piavate  lot.  Persons  obtaining  permits 
for  interments  in  private  lots  will  be  held  responsible  for  all 
expenses  for  disinterments  in  case  such  permits,  for  any 
cause,  were  erroneously  issued.  With  the  lapse  of  years  some 
lots  are  held  by  the  great-grandchildren  of  the  original  owners, 
and  heirs  are  so  singularly  negligent  in  notifying  the  Asso- 
ciation of  their  rights  of  inheritance,  that  in  some  cases,  es- 
pecially where  names  are  changed  by  marriage,  permits  may 
be  refused  to  persons  who  can  rightfully  demand  them.  As 
this  is  a matter  of  importance  to  lot  OAvners,  their  attention  is 
called  to  the  rule  concerning  “Decease  of  Owners,”  No.  16, 
page  24. 

7.  Applications  for  interment  must  be  made  at  the  Sec- 
retary’s office,  as  folloAvs: 

When  an  interment  is  to  be  made  before  one  o’clock  p.  m., 
the  application  must  be  made  before  half-past  two  o’clock  p.  m. 
on  the  previous  day. 

When  to  be  made  after  one  o’clock  p.  m.,  the  application 
must  be  made  by  nine  o’clock  a.  m.  of  the  same  day.  When  to 
be  made  on  Sunday  the  application  must  be  made  by  noon  on 
Saturday. 

The  receipt  of  a box  at  the  Cemetery,  Avith  or  Avithout  a 
diagram,  will  not  be  accepted  as  an  order  for  opening  a grave. 

No  grave  aaIU  be  opened  until  an  order  has  been  received 
from  the  city  office. 

On  Sundays  the  Secretary’s  office  aaIII  not  be  open. 


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8.  No  disinterment  for  removal  of  remains  outside  of 
the  Cemetery,  or  for  re-interment  in  another  part  of  the 
grounds,  Avill  be  permitted  Avithout  an  order  first  being  ob- 
tained from  the  Secretary  therefor,  hut  from  February  15 
until  November  1st  of  each  year  no  body  Avill  be  disinterred. 
From  November  1st  until  February  15th,  disinterments  may  be 
made  at  any  time,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Superintendent, 
Sundays  and  holidays  excepted. 

9.  In  cases  of  disinterment  from  single  graves  in  public 
lots,  for  removal  of  remains  out  of  the  Cemetery,  or  for  re-in- 
terment in  lots  belonging  to  or  purchased  of  other  oAvners,  no 
alloAvance  shall  be  made  for  the  grave  vacated,  but  a relin- 
quishment of  oAAmership  to  the  Association  shall  be  required 
for  its  use  before  an  order  issues  for  the  disinterment. 

When  single  graves,  described  in  the  foregoing  sec- 
tion, are  vacated  by  disinterment,  Avith  a vicAV  of  re-interring 
in  a ncAvly  purchased  lot,  the  price  originally  paid  for  such 
graves  shall  be  alloAved  in  part  payment  of  the  ncAv  purchase, 
the  usual  charge  for  disinterring  and  re-interring  to  be  made 
in  both  the  above  cases. 

10.  In  future  but  one  interment  may  be  made  in  a grave 
in  any  part  of  the  grounds  except  in  the  ease  of  a mother 
and  a ncAV  born  babe;  or  remains  from  old  burying  places 
AA^here  such  remains  can  be  put  into  one  box.  No  grave  shall 
be  re-opened  for  the  reception  of  another  body. 

11.  Loud  conversation  on  the  part  of  carriage  drivers 
or  AAmrkmen  on  the  grounds  is  prohibited,  and  for  any  un- 
seemly conduct  on  the  part  of  drivers  the  undertakers  Avill  be 
held  responsible.  No  smoking  aauII  be  permitted,  and  Avorkmen 
must  suspend  their  labors  if  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of 
an  interment  until  after  the  conclusion  of  the  serAuces. 

12.  An  interment  once  properly  made  cannot  be  dis- 
turbed, except  upon  the  Avritten  order  of  the  original  OAvner  or 
owners  of  the  lot,  and  by  consent  of  the  corporation.  Heirs 
to  a lot  cannot  be  permitted  to  remove  from  the  lot,  or  to  any 
other  place  in  it,  the  remains  of  the  original  owners,  nor  can 
they  be  permitted  to  disturb  in  any  way  such  remains,  or  the 


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remains  of  any  one  interred  prior  to  the  decease  of  the  original 
owner  or  owners;  except  only  that,  in  case  such  heirs  should 
exchange  their  lot  for  a larger  and  more  expensive  one  in  the 
Cemetery,  they  may  remove  thereto  (the  consent  of  the  Trus- 
tees first  having  been  obtained)  any  remains  from  their  former 
lots,  but  to  no  other  place. 

The  above  applies  to  interments  in  vaults,  whether  such 
structures  are  under  or  above  ground. 

13.  No  interments  shall  be  made  in  any  lot  against  Avhich 
there  are  unpaid  charges  due  the  Association,  for  work  done 
on  it,  whether  that  work  was  done  on  foundations  or  monu- 
ments, or  was  for  grading  and  sodding,  or  for  any  other  care 
of  lot. 

14.  Telephone  messages  are  sent  through  the  city  office 
to  the  Cemetery  only  as  a matter  of  convenience  to  persons 
having  business  there,  and  to  save  them  the  trouble  of  sending 
a messenger  to  the  grounds.  The  Association  will  not  be  re- 
sponsible for  any  message  so  sent,  nor  for  the  failure  to  get  a 
message  through. 

No  orders  will  be  accepted  at  the  city  office  over  the  tele- 
phone. 

RULES  CONCERNING  VISITORS. 

1.  No  one  entitled  to  cards  of  admission  should  fail  to 
apply  for  them  at  the  city  office,  as,  with  the  increased  facili- 
ties for  reaching  the  Cemetery,  it  has  been  found  necessary,  in 
order  to  protect  the  lot  owners,  to  enforce  the  rule  requiring 
all  to  exhibit  their  cards  of  admission  to  the  gate-keepers 
when  demanded  before  they  will  be  allowed  to  enter.  Owners 
of  lots  can  co-operate  Avith  the  management  in  the  effort  to 
keep  their  grounds  sacred  from  intrusions,  or  possible  abuses, 
from  persons  who  have  no  interest  in  them ; and,  in  the  line  of 
this  co-operation,  holders  of  cards  of  admission  are  requested 
to  have  them  ready  to  exhibit  to  the  gate-keepers  as  they  ap- 
proach the  gates. 

Any  one  owning  a lot  is  entitled  to  a permanent  card  of 
admission.  Others  can  obtain  a Ausitor’s  card,  AAffiich  must  be 
surrendered  at  the  gate. 


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2.  No  vehicle  will  be  allowed  to  pass  through  the  grounds 
at  a rate  exceeding  four  miles  an  hour;  and  persons  in  vehicles 
or  on  horseback  are  expressly  prohibited  from  leaving  the 
roads. 

3.  No  person  having  refreshments  of  any  kind  will  be 
permitted  to  come  Avithin  the  grounds,  nor  will  smoking  be 
alloAved,  nor  aatII  any  one  be  allowed  to  take  dogs  into  the 
grounds.  Bicycling  on  the  grounds,  fishing  in  the  lakes  and 
skating  thereon  not  allowed,  nor  will  automobiles  be  ad- 
mitted. 

4.  It  being  impossible  for  the  gate-keepers  or  the  special 
policemen  to  know  where  fiowers  in  the  possession  of  visitors 
come  from,  lots  owners  aauII  see  the  propriety  of  a rule  pro- 
hibiting any  one  from  plucking  floAvers  from  lots  or  graves, 
Avhether  hy  the  owners  or  others.  Flowers,  either  AAuld  or  culti- 
vated, cannot  be  carried  out  of  the  Cemetery,  unless  permis- 
sion in  writing  is  obtained  from  the  Superintendent  or  city 
office,  which  must  be  exhibited  and  given  up  to  the  gate-keeper 
before  passing  out. 

Gate-keepers  and  special  policemen  will  be  required  to 
wear  such  uniform  as  may  be  selected  by  the  Association,  that 
their  anthority  may  be  recognized  when  their  duties  bring 
them  into  contact  Avith  the  general  public. 

5.  All  persons  are  prohibited  from  writing  upon,  defac- 
ing or  injuring  any  monument  or  other  structure,  in  or 
belonging  to  the  Cemetery. 

6.  Any  person  disturbing  the  quiet  and  good  order  of 
the  place  by  noise  or  other  improper  conduct,  or  Avho  shall 
violate  any  of  the  foregoing  rules,  Avill  be  compelled  instantly 
to  leave  the  grounds.  The  discharge  of  fire-arms  is  specially 
prohibited. 

7.  The  gate-keepers  are  charged  to  prohibit  the  entrance 
of  all  improper  persons,  and  also  those  who,  at  any  time,  shall 
have  Avilfully  transgressed  the  regulations  of  the  Cemetery, 
although  presenting  tickets. 

8.  No  horse  or  team  unattended  may  be  left  standing  in 
the  grounds  unfastened,  as  hitching  posts  at  convenient  dis- 


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tances  have  been  provided  for  securing  them ; fastening  them 
to  trees  is  expressly  prohibited. 

9.  The  Superintendent,  his  assistants,  gate-keepers,  and 
all  persons  acting  under  them,  are  fully  charged  to  see  any 
and  all  the  foregoing  regulations’  faithfully  observed,  and 
shall  give  notice  of  any  violations  thereof  to  the  Trustees. 

10.  Visitors  are  reminded  that  the  grounds  of  the  Ceme- 
tery are  sacredly  devoted  to  the  interment  and  repose  of  the 
dead,  and  that  a strict  observance  of  the  decorum  due  to  such 
a place  will  be  expected  and  required  of  all. 

11.  Visitors  to  the  Cemetery  are  requested  to  remain  at  a 
respectful  distance  from  funeral  parties  of  which  they  are  not 
members,  and  to  keep  away  from  lots  in  the  immediate  vicinity 
of  which  an  interment  is  being  made. 

The  propriety  of  such  conduct  must  be  apparent  to  every 
one,  but  some  have,  at  times,  thoughtlessly  failed  to  observe  it. 

In  ease  this  request  is  not  heeded,  the  Cemetery  attend- 
ants are  directed  to  enforce  its  observance. 

Persons  on  their  own  lots  wPen  an  interment  takes  place 
on  an  adjoining  one,  are  requested  to  retire  for  a few  minutes 
to  give  the  funeral  party  the  privacy  w'hich  they  should 
have  at  such  a time. 


SUNDAY. 

Gardeners  are  prohibited  from  entering  the  grounas  on 
Sunday  for  business  purposes,  except  only  to  take  in  flowers 
or  floral  emblems  previously  ordered. 

No  brick  or  stone  grave  can  be  built  on  Sunday;  nor  can 
selections  of  lots  be  made  on  that  day.  The  Superintendent’s 
office  on  the  Broadway  front  of  the  grounds  (No.  7201  North 
Broadway)  will  be  open  for  selection  of  lots  on  all  other  days 
from  8 a.  m.  until  5 p.  m. 

The  City  Office  will  not  be  open  on  Sunday. 

No  orders  for  Sunday  funerals  will  be  accepted  after  12 
0 ’clock  noon  on  Saturday,  as  no  graves  will  be  dug  on  Sunday. 


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No  removals  from  the  Receiving  Tomb  will  be  made  on 
Sundays  or  holidays. . 

On  Sunday  there  will  be  no  one  in  attendance  to  receive 
boxes,  or  for  any  purpose  whatever,  except  only  to  attend  to 
interments.  Under  no  circumstances  will  it  be  permitted  to 
leave  boxes  with  gate  keepers  at  any  time. 

The  Cemetery  is  not  open  to  the  general  public  on  Sun- 
day. Ovmers  of  lots  will  be  admitted  when  presenting  their 
cards  of  admission. 

It  is  the  sense  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Bellefon- 
taine  Cemetery  Association  that  as  Sunday  has  always  been 
set  apart  for  the  exclusive  use  of  the  lot  owners,  that  they  may 
visit  their  lots  without  being  subjected  to  intrusion  from  per- 
sons having  no  interest  in  the  grounds,  the  admission  of  Socie- 
ties and  their  invited  gpests  on  that  day  for  services  or  for 
ceremonies  of  any  kind  should  not  be  allowed,  nor  should  the 
admission  of  large  bodies  be  permitted  at  any  time. 


RULES  AND  SUGGESTIONS 


CONCERNING  THE 

PURCHASE  OF  LOTS  IN  THE  CEMETERY 


Persons  desiring  to  purcliase  a lot  should  first  call  at  the 
office  of  the  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  in  the  city,  and  obtain 
a ticket  of  admission  to  the  grounds.  Upon  his  or  her  arrival 
there  the  Superintendent,  or  his  assistants,  will  show  the 
various  lots  for  sale,  and  if  one  is  selected  the  party  will  re- 
ceive a certificate  to  that  effect,  giving  the  size  and  form  of 
the  lot,  and  the  section  or  sections  in  which  located. 

Selections  cannot  be  made  on  Sunday.  The  Superintend- 
ent’s office,  which  is  on  the  Broadway  front  of  the  grounds, 
will  he  open  for  this  purpose  on  all  other  days  from  8 a.  m. 
until  5 p.  m. 

For  necessary  interment  business  only  the  Superintend- 
ent’s office  will  be  open  on  Sunday  from  nine  a.  m.  until  noon. 

Before  the  lot  thus  selected  can  be  used  for  interment 
purposes  the  purchaser  must  call  at  the  Treasurer’s  office  and 
pay  for  same,  after  which  an  order  for  interment  therein  may 
be  at  any  time  procured. 

A deed  having  once  been  issued  for  a lot  and  registered  in 
the  book  kept  for  that  purpose  by  the  Secretary,  the  purchaser 
or  purchasers  become  seized  of  a title  wffiieh,  according  to  the 
charter,  is  indivisible,  free  from  taxation,  is  not  subject  to 
attachment  or  sale  under  execution,  nor  by  order  of  any  court ; 
neither  can  it  be  conveyed  by  the  owner  out  of  his  family  after 
any  interments  have  been  made  in  such  lot,  except  as  provided 
for  in  Section  5 of  Amendments  to  Charter  (page  15),  ap- 
proved March  19,  1866.  (See  also  Section  2 of  original  Char- 
ter, approved  March  7,  1849,  page  8.) 


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Whenever  a lot  is  subject  to  sale  and  transfer  under  the 
provisions  of  Section  5,  above  referred  to,  the  title  passes  by- 
deed  from  the  original  purchaser  or  his  legal  representatives, 
and  such  conveyance  is  necessary  to  be  registered  in  the  Sec- 
retary’s office,  in  order  that  the  rights  of  the  last  purchaser 
may  be  understood  and  recognized  as  to  burial  therein.  (See 
also  Rules  15  and  16  governing  Lots  and  Lot  Owners,  pp.  23 
and  24.) 

Any  lot  owner  can,  by  an  order  under  his  own  signature, 
permit  of  a single  interment  for  any  person  outside  of  his 
family  circle  he  may  desire  to  have  buried  in  his  lot.  Heirs 
cannot  do  this  except  by  unanimous  consent. 

Any  further  information  in  regard  to  lots,  sections  and 
single  graves,  or  pertaining  in  anywise  to  the  business  of  the 
Cemetery,  can  be  had  by  application  at  the  office  of  the  Asso- 
ciation in  the  city. 

Legacies  and  deposits  for  the  care  of  lots,  of  which  a 
large  number  have  already  been  received  from  owners  of  lots, 
either  during  their  life  time  or  by  will,  will  continue  to  be 
received  and  the  interest  therefrom  applied  to  the  perpetual 
care  of  designated  lots. 

ENDOWMENT  OP  CEMETERY  LOTS  FOR  PERPETUAL 

CARE. 

Attention  is  called  to.  the  fact  that  by  a deposit  of  money 
with  the  Association,  or  a bequest  to  it  by  last  will,  a lot 
owner  can  establish  a fund  which  will  insure  the  perpetual 
care  of  his  or  her  lot.  The  Association  will  receive  all  such 
deposits  or  bequests,  invest  the  same  and  expend  the  annual 
income  therefrom  upon  the  care  of  the  lot  of  the  persons  from 
whom  the  same  shall  have  been  received.  Such  a provision 
wall  relieve  the  lot  owner  from  anxiety  lest,  through  the  death 
or  removal  from  the  city  of  all  of  his  or  her  descendants  or 
through  their  misfortunes  or  indifferences,  the  lot  be  suffered 
to  become  disordered  or  unsightly.  Persons  desiring  by  last 
will  to  establish  such  a fund  should  use  the  form  of  bequest 
indicated  in  this  circular;  otherudse  they  are  cautioned  to 


PURCHASE  OF  LOTS. 


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make  inquiry  of  the  Association  as  to  the  terms  upon  which 
such  a bequest  will  be  accepted.  There  are  a number  of  these 
Endowments  established  as  early  as  1877,  and  ranging  in 
amounts  from  three  hundred  dollars  to  three  thousand  dollars, 
according  to  size  of  the  lot  and  the  kind  of  care  desired.  Some 
of  these  endowed  lots  are  owned  in  the  third  generation  from 
the  original  owner,  and  in  some  cases  the  present  owners,  by 
reason  of  change  of  fortune,  are  totally  unable  to  keep  them 
in  the  condition  in  which  they  are  now  being  kept  by  the  As- 
sociation as  a result  of  their  ancestor’s  forethought.  The  As- 
sociation will  take  temporary  annual  charge  of  lots  and  give 
them  such  special  care  as  may  be  desired  by  their  owners  at 
the  request  and  at  the  expense  of  the  latter. 


FORM  OF  BEQUEST  FOR  PERPETUAL  CARE. 

“I  bequeath  to  the  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  Association  of 

St.  Louis,  Missouri, Dollars  in  money,  to  be  kept 

safely  invested ; and  I direct  that  the  net  income  thereof  shall 
be  expended  by  the  said  Corporation  from  time  to  time,  as 
needed,  towards  keeping  my  burial  lot  in  Bellefontaine  Ceme- 
tery in  good  order  and  condition.  ’ ’ 

LIMITATIONS  AND  DISPOSITION  OP  LOTS. 

Owners  ivlio  wish  to  limit  interments  in  their  lots  after 
their  deaths,  should  dispose  of  them  by  wiU  to  the  Association, 
or  by  Reconveyance  to  it  during  life,  in  trust  to  carry  out 
their  wishes  concerning  them.  This  is  important  where  they 
leave  no  direct  descendants,  in  which  case  their  lots  will  be 
inherited  by  collateral  heirs;  and  owners  of  lots  may  have  a 
choice  among  their  collateral  heirs  as  to  the  future  ownership 
of  their  burial  places. 


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KE CONVEYANCE  BY  WILL. 

FORM. 

“I  give  and  devise  unto  the  Bellefontaine  Cemetery  As- 
sociation of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  and  State  of  Missouri,  its 
successors  and  assigns  forever,  my  lot  in  the  Cemetery  of  said 

Association,  being  lot  No , as  shown  and  defined  upon 

the  plan  or  map  of  said  Cemetery,  provided  and  upon  condi- 
tion that  the  said  Cemetery  Association  shall  not  at  any  time 
hereafter  disturb  any  grave  now  upon  said  lot,  or  disinter  any 
body  therein,  or  permit  hereafter  any  body  to  be  interred 
therein  except 

(Here  name  the  persons  who  may  be  buried  in  the  lot.) 

(Persons  reconveying  their  lots  to  the  Association  by  will  should  also 

leave  a sum  of  money  to  the  Association  for  their  perpetual 
care.  See  form  for  Bequest  on  preceding  page.) 

RECONVEYANCE  BY  DEED  DURING  THE  LIFE  TIME 
OP  THE  OWNER. 

FORM. 

‘ ‘ Know  all  men  by  these  Presents,  that 

of  the  City  of  St.  Louis  and  State  of  Missouri,  in  consideration 
of  the  performance  of  the  conditions  hereinafter  set  forth, 
and  of  the  sum  of  one  dollar  in  hand  paid,  does  by  these  pres- 
ents, Grant,  Convey, and  Confirm  unto  the  Bellefontaine  Cem- 
etery Association,  a corporation  organized  under  the  laws  of 

the  State  of  Missouri,  Lot  No in  the  Cemetery  of  the 

said  Association,  as  indicated  and  defined  on  the  map  or  plan 
of  said  Cemetery;  provided  and  upon  condition  that  the  said 
Cemetery  Association  shall  not  at  any  time  hereafter  disturb 
any  grave  upon  said  lot,  or  disinter  any  body  therein,  or  per- 
mit hereafter  any  body  to  be  interred  therein  except 
(Here  insert  the  name  of  the  persons  who  may  be  buried  in  the  lot.) 

To  Have  and  to  Hold  the  lot  aforesaid  unto  the  said 
Bellefontaine  Cemetery  Association,  its  successors  and  assigns 


PURCHASE  OF  LOTS. 

forever,  subject  to  the  conditions  and  restrictions 
fore  set  forth. 

In  Witness  Whereof,  the  said 

(Name  of  owner.) 

has  hereunto  set hand  and  seal  this 


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hereinbe- 
. . day  of 


(A  blank  form  of^deed  for  this  reconveyance  may  be  obtained  at  the 
city  office  of  the  Association.) 


LIST  OF  PRICES  AND  CHARGES. 


FOR  LOTS. 

No  lot  is  to  contain  less  than  400  superficial  square  feet. 
Prices  range  from  75  cts.  to  $2.00  per  square  foot  until  other- 
wise ordered. 

Stone  blocks  being  required  to  be  set  to  mark  the  boun- 
daries of  every  lot,  the  charge  for  furnishing  and  setting  the 
same  will  he  $2.50  each,  to  be  paid  for  when  the  lot  is  pur- 
chased. 

FOR  SECTIONS. 

The  Trustees  have  laid  out  a limited  number  of  “Sec- 
tions, ” of  10  feet  square,  one  of  which,  mth  others  contiguous, 
if  desired,  can  be  acquired  at  a cost  of  80  cents  per  square 
foot,  until  the  supply  is  exhausted. 

Two  interments  only  allowed  on  each  section. 

SINGLE  GRAVE. 

Interment  right  in  public  lot  grave,  $30.00,  exclusive  of 
charge  for  opening. 

ORDINARY  CHARGES  FOR  OPENING  GRAVES  AND 


TOMBS. 

Adults,  for  interment  or  disinterment $7.00 

Child  5.00 

Vaults  and  Tombs  according  to  work  done. 

Covering  with  evergreen,  adult 1.00 

Covering  with  evergreen,  child 50 

Lining  with  evergreen 10.00 


PRICES  AND  CHARGES. 


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ON  SUNDAY. 


Adults,  for  interment $10.00 

Child,  for  interment  7.00 

Receiving  Tomb  10.00 

Interment  of  ashes  from  Crematory 7.00 


FOR  USE  OF  RECEIVING  TOMB. 

The  fee  for  use  of  the  Receiving  Tomb  must  be  prepaid 
by  the  person  ordering  it;  and  should  the  limit  of  time  for 
any  reason  he  exceeded,  the  additional  fee  must  be  paid  by  him 
at  least  monthly,  as  demanded  by  the  Association,  and  all 
charges  must  he  paid  before  any  removal  from  the  Receiving 
Tomb  shall  be  allowed.  The  Association  reserves  the  right  to 
remove  any  remains  from  the  Receiving  Tomb,  at  its  discre- 
tion, and  to  bury  them  at  the  cost  of  the  person  ordering  the 
original  deposit  in  the  Receiving  Tomb. 

No  removal  from  the  Receiving  Tomb  can  be  made  on 
Sunday  or  holidays. 

Depositing  body  in  tomb  (adult  or  child),  to  be  after- 
wards interred  in  Cemetery,  remaining  20  days  or 


less  $5.00 

Sunday  10.00 

Use  of  tomb  for  each  additional  day 50 

Depositing  body  in  tomb  (adult  or  child)  to  be  after- 
wards removed  from  Cemeteiy,  remaining  20  days 

or  less 15.00 

Use  of  tomb  for  each  additional  day 1.00 


The  Receiving  Tomb  is  for  temporary  use,  and  for  the 
convenience  of  those  persons  only  who  intend  to  purchase  a 
lot  at  once. 

FOR  BRICK  AND  STONE  GRAVES. 

A brick  grave,  thoroughly  cemented  inside,  and  with  stone 
flag  covering,  can  be  furnished  for  $52.00,  and  a stone  grave 


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for  $62.00,  to  be  paid  for  at  the  city  office  of  the  Association 
before  an  order  can  be  issued ; but  no  work  on  a brick  or  stone 
grave  can  be  done  on  Sunday. 

Persons  ordering  them  must  govern  themselves  accord- 
ingly, and  give  timely  notice.  Thirty-six  hours  notice,  not 
including  Sunday,  must  be  given. 

Flowers  will  not  be  permitted  to  be  placed  in  the  Receiv- 
ing Tomb. 


IMay  2,  1904. 


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